NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

We have a huge problem facing our sustainability in nonprofits and that is donor retention. When we strategize and are proactive on behalf of the donor, our work carries far more impact. Culture focuses on empowerment, excellence, and gratitude to help define your organization’s interactions with donors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2021

We talked extensively about her priorities in her new role, Goodwill’s biggest challenges, closing the opportunity gap, and the importance of technology in solving big problems. We’re in the business of self-empowerment and helping people find that through employment. OC: The impact we can make is so visible. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

To mark the date, the One Campaign has shared a research report called “ Poverty is Sexist ,” that documents how extreme poverty hurts girls and women harder and in different ways than it does boys and men, and to demand targeted action to support girls and women. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

But by using modern computer processors to perform these calculations at high volumes, data scientists can create models capable of solving complex problems. What kinds of problems can machine learning solve? If not designed mindfully, AI can reinforce these problems in many ways. Learn about DataRobot’s AI for Good program.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Social problems still endure, despite PM’s prominence as a way to ensure accountability and inform strategic decisions since the 1960’s. A nationwide network, like the American Red Cross , supports powerful capacity to conduct and utilize PM. We are in a moment where PM has the potential to be more powerful than ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Its newest online fundraiser, Waterforward , is based on a simple question: What if the billion social media users in the world collectively chipped in a few dollars and helped solve the “wicked” problem for the billion people around the world who don’t have clean water? You also get see what your total impact was.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The tendency of philanthropic professionals, big donors, and other relatively privileged people to assume that they know what is best for the people who are directly affected by the problems that need to be addressed. Articles, reports, podcasts, and videos: The Problems With Philanthropy, and What We Can Do to Fix Them.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

First launched in 2007, PIMCO’s original volunteer programming was limited, supporting 23 events across various business locations. These pillars help us engage our clients, develop cross-sector partnerships, maintain focus on impact metrics, and support our PIMCO colleagues while fostering meaningful social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Give for Youth micro-giving marketplace where you can support youth-focused nonprofits directly. Because Microsoft works in partnerships with others in the sector,they are committing the majority of their corporate cash giving to support nonprofits that serve youth. ” Their solution is Microsoft YouthSpark.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 21, 2015

" The report also recommends solutions to the thorny tech-funding problem. Shifting expectations and mindset to "do more with more" Providing nonprofits with core support and flexibility. Sharing tech-enabled impact stories. It focuses on five of them: Bridging the knowledge gaps. Download the Report.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. We strongly support this position and believe the digital content revolution holds the best promise for the future of braille. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

While art, history, creativity, and culture are the vehicles for that empowerment, the teens involved spend a lot of their time with activists, civic leaders, and social psychologists. It''s about empowerment and community leadership through art and history. How do we scale this impact to reach more people?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. SafeNight for other populations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

Moving from A Problem to Solution Frame. Carson talked about the impact of government cuts in California – and that it is going beyond effecting those in lower income neighborhoods and reaching a broader swath of individuals. For example, the City of San Jose is trying to save money by turning off the street lights in the city.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

It’s going to be called Social by Social: a practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact and it should be published and distributed by NESTA next month. If you give them tools for taking more control of their lives, they will pay you back in attention, support and even hard cash. Empowerment is unconditional.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

But a structural problem remains: philanthropy does not typically have available capital for scaling. The Social Impact Bond (SIB), developed in the U.K., The investors assume the risk that the nonprofit organization will meet the benchmarks and alleviate the social problem. was recently adopted in Massachusetts. iv [link].

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Our current model mainly depends on government and foundation support enabling us to provide free library services to members.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Can an app dramatically increase access to safe, supportive shelters for survivors of human trafficking? She's been working in the area of nonprofit technology for more than twenty years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. Can't solve the world's problems with our money alone. This enables us to have impact, scale and sustainability. We need leverage points."

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations are in the business of making the world a better place by providing grants to organizations they see making an impact on the issues that they care about deeply. The following four examples developed by foundations demonstrate the value of a digital strategy in fulfilling a variety of awareness and impact needs.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2015

Helping some of the world’s most impoverished children in Liberia is a complex problem, but ChildFund International receives help from an important partner back in the U.S.: That support goes beyond donating money through grants, although that is an important component of the foundation. ChildFund International. TOMS Shoes. AmeriCares.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Many of them will be nonprofit professionals without a technical background—such as fundraisers and database managers—who are looking for ways to increase their impact through the power of AI and low-code platforms. Open APIs allow you to connect your CRM data to any platform that supports them.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

But there was a problem: it wasn''t a consistent body. Low on long-term impact. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity. We asked people to make a voluntary donation of up to $150 to help support the facilitation of C3, and snacks. Low on friction. Low on depth.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

After the call I started wondering, "How do you activate more people to contribute to the solution of a problem that is so horrific it paralyzes people into inaction?" Make it social (leverage the impact of the group). Make it tangible (participants should feel like they have made a direct impact). million nonprofits in the U.S.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

However, the judges were sure to point out that a social impact game shouldn't have to try to invent new game genres to create an experience where players can empathize with the characters. Despite their low expectations and lack of support from the original game engine creators, the game was downloaded over 40,000 times.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. What we do is essentially support social entrepreneurship within refugee communities. The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

You get ongoing support that is not on a limited time basis, but is on an ongoing basis. The advisors are working with you on a monthly basis, on a quarterly basis doing presentations to the Board, and we track your impact. We love people that look for fair trade for the farmers overseas, and supporting a bamboo village in China.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. We also saw some.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Building on this concept, Beth asked nonprofit leaders to enter the contest by explaining what their organization’s singular, most important activity would be in 2011 that would at-once drive social impact, engage supporters and increase revenues. Now that’s social impact! We’re the Safe America Foundation. We are NOT a shelter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

What we really believe is that there is a kind of new consciousness to consumerism in the United States, and as consumerism is sort of evolving, people are really thinking about how to purchase or consume, but at the same time make a constructive impact on the world and express their social or other kinds of values into the world. We believe.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

For example, policies like AB22, which is a family cap policy that basically restricts the amount of aid that a family can get after they have one child in the house who is getting welfare support. BB: When I hear that I think, wow, that is a huge, depressing, systemic problem. BB: You are relatively new ED. You started in December?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

But, this wasn’t a just a tourist trip, I was on a mission to see technology social change projects in action and better understand how technology can impact social on the ground in rural areas with limited connectivity and resources. The man denied it and left. This could lead to sickness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

Photo by Santino Livoti One face to a problem moves us, millions overwhelm us. " There are links to several charities that provide support and assistance to children in developing countries. Successful fund raisers for social causes have known that for a long time.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

When you look at this infographic, do you see a problem to be solved? Supporting data comes from many corners, but primarily the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). If the opportunity for impact is greater, should we go there? A snapshot of the market for the arts? Or something else entirely? What would success look like?

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

But their impact on workers and economies is far from positive. To support this vision, the Drivers Cooperative has been successful in raising more than $1.4 Can Labor Unions Support Platform Cooperatives? . Platform apps seem to offer convenience at low cost and with little effort. Today, it has over 5,000 members.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

There's a long fight ahead, but for issues that stir you, one simple, positive thing you can do today is give - your time, money, voice, or attention - because so many organizations need your urgent support. At EveryAction, we live and work by the motto "Build the World You Want." Donate | Take Action | Volunteer | Twitter | Facebook.

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